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Level Ex is announcing today that it will enable doctors to practice surgery in a realistic 3D virtual surgery mobile app.<p>The app shows how much progress mobile technology has made in being able to show realistic graphics. And it also recognizes that doctors have few options for honing their …

We just finished our GamesBeat Summit 2016 event, and we were pleased with how that went. Now we’re happy to announce today that GamesBeat 2016 will use as its theme “The Platform Awakens: A new hope for the game industry.” We’ve also got our first batch of speakers.<p>This is our first GamesBeat …

Each day, about 80,000 people travel to Santa Monica for work. At the same time, about 45,000 Santa Monica residents head to jobs outside the city.<p>Most drive solo, often on jammed freeways.<p>Even the biggest public-transportation boosters acknowledge that next month's arrival of the Expo Line — the …

Illustrator Chloe Giordano embroiders miniaturized animals that are so thickly sewn, they take on a sculptural appearance. Her compositions consist of layers of fine, thin threads and, together, these meticulously-stitched marks visually blend color together like a pointillist painting. At the same …

Artist Satoru Aoyama combines vintage prints and embroidery stitches to create fascinating multi-medium works of art. Known for his ability to intersect the contemporary with the traditional, Aoyama is recognized for his inherent craftsmanship and consistent acknowledgement of the artistic process. …

Ready for the next chapter in the continuing saga of technology siring big-time business disruption? This year’s SXSW Interactive conference left little doubt of the protagonists: virtual reality and artificial intelligence.<p>Companies ranging from startups to Samsung and McDonalds (yes, McDonalds) …

Virtual reality may have gotten off to a rocky start this week with delays and delivery issues for the two early leaders, Facebook's Oculus Rift and HTC's Vive, but don't let that sour you on the idea.<p>According to Goldman Sachs, virtual reality and its cousin augmented reality, which shows up in …

<b>The best YA books of 2016 is selected by Martin Chilton and Rebecca Hawkes. The list is in order of when the novels were reviewed. Updated weekly.</b><p>1: TOM ELLEN AND LUCY IVISON: NEVER EVERS (CHICKEN HOUSE)<p>Never Evers is a dual-narrative book, just like Tom Ellen and Lucy Ivison's engaging first book,</b> …

CEO Brendan Iribe on why now is the time for the Facebook unit to roll out its VR headset, the Rift<p>Facebook Inc. Chief Executive Mark Zuckerberg says a new computing platform comes around every 10 years. This year, he says, the next one arrives: virtual reality.<p>Mr. Zuckerberg is trying to will that …

When Facebook forked out two billion dollars to buy virtual reality gaming start-up Oculus back in March of 2014, it was perhaps the first sign to the mainstream world that virtual reality tech is ready, and is here.<p>A few months after Mark Zuckerberg’s big bet on that elusive technology that has …

A few months ago, I found myself in a yard next to a school in Peru. Some Americans had come to give away shoes to students. I saw the students playing soccer, jumping rope, and dancing in their newly acquired shoes. It nearly brought me to tears.<p>I wasn’t actually there. I was watching a 360-degree …

Most of us experience some level of stress and anxiety in our lives. It can be relatively mild or extremely severe and debilitating — or anywhere along the spectrum. Some examples include general stress at work, relationship issues, fears and phobias, depression and other anxiety disorders, …

SAN FRANCISCO — On online dating sites, Matthew Sachs identifies himself as a 5-foot-8, 130-pound grad student who likes hiking, performance art and community service. He says he’s interested in meeting a broad range of guys, from jocks to geeks, and notes that — oh, by the way — he’s “On …